Thumb and finger sucking preventer



Dec. 7 1926.

J. G. JOHNSTON THUMB AND FINGER SUCKING PREVENTER Filed August 20, 1925 Patented Dec. 7, 1926.

UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

THUMB AND FINGER SUOKING PREVENTER.

Application filed August 20, 1925.

The present invention relates to devices for preventing thumb and finger sucking in children, and has for its object the provision of a device which will not harm a child while in use, and that will prevent it from getting the thumb or finger into its mouth and thus break it of this undesirable habit.

Another important object of the invention is to provide a device of this nature which is simple, inexpensive, practical and durable, and readily applicable and will not injure the wearer but serve only for the purpose of breaking the finger or thumb sucking habit.

The invention constitutes a construction, the combination, its details, and arrange ment of the parts and embodiment of which invention is illustrated in the drawing and described and claimed herein.

In the drawing,

Figure 1 is a view of a childs hand showing my improved invention applied to its thumb, and

Fig. 2 is a sectional View through the ball forming a part of the invention.

Referring to the drawing in detail, it will be seen that 1 designates a ring adapted to be received on the thumb of a childs hand below the first joint. A split ring 2 is engaged with the ring 1 and is in turn engaged with the eye screw 3. The eye screw 3 is fastened in a wooden ball 4.

Serial No. 51,398.

A catch 5 is driven into the wooden bail, co-aXially with the eye screw 3. The ring 1 is placed on the thumb or any finger of the childs hand preferably below the first joint. As is well known, the childs mouth is distorted because of placing therein the entire thumb, and works the same about to such an extent as to very frequenty disfigure the jaws and other parts of the same.

This device which I have described, prevents the child from getting the thumb all the way in the mouth, and will soon break the child of the thumb sucking habit. The ball is attached to the finger in a flexible manner, and will not interfere with the proper activities of the hand and, of course, will also function as an improvement device such as a rattle or the like so as to distract the child and thus further aid in the thumbsucking habit in being broken.

Having thus described my invention, what I claim as new is A thumb and finger sucking preventer comprising a ball, an eye screw threadedly engaged in the ball, a ring engaged with the eye screw, and a second ring engaged with the first ring and adapted to be engaged over the finger or thumb of a childs hand.

In testimony whereof I afiix my signature.

JOSEPH Gr. JOHNSTON. 

